This week’s playlist looks significantly less pretty, as there were some tech issues with the playlist tracker. Â I’m sure you won’t be too devastated.
As always, you can hear my delightful music selections every Friday night on Chicago’s own CHIRP Radio, from 8 – 10 pm Central time.
8:00 hour
Quiet Company/Everything Louder Than Everything Else/We Are All Where We Belong/Self-released
These United States/Maps/These United States/United Interests
Fred Williams & the Jewels Band/Tell Her/Eccentric Soul: Smart’s Palace/Numero
Nick Waterhouse/(If) You Want Trouble/Time’s All Gone/Innovative Leisure
The Right Now/I Could Really Hold On/Carry Me Home/self-released
Alexander Tucker/Andromeon/Third Mouth/Thrill Jockey
Boozoo Bajou/Down & Out/Satta/Modernsoul
Eluvium/After Nature/Copia/Temporary Residence Ltd.
Japandroids/The House that Heaven Built/Celebration Rock/Polyvinyl
Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Rich/Fever to Tell/Interscope
Neon Indian/Era Extrana/Era Extrana/Mom + Pop
Noe Venable/Don’t Stop Crying/Boots/Petridish
Kelly Hogan/We Just Can’t Have Nice Things/I Like To Keep Myself in Pain/ANTI-
Indigo Girls/Sugar Tongue/Poseidon & The Bitter Bug/Vanguard
9:00 hour
Gregory and the Hawk/Olly Olly Oxen Free/Leche/FatCat
Young Man/Fate/Vol. 1/Frenchkiss
The Wooden Birds/Anna Paula/Magnolia/Barsuk
Nice Face/Asymptotes I/Horizon Fires/HoZac
Yellow Ostrich/Marathon Runner/Strange Land/Barsuk
The Hold Steady/Positive Jam/Almost Killed Me/Frenchkiss
Brandi Carlile/Raise Hell/Bear Creek/Columbia
The Tallest Man on Earth/1904/There’s No Leaving Now/Dead Oceans
Nathan Mathes/The Sea Is Ridge/American Whitecaps/self-released
Califone/Alice Marble Gray/All My Friends Are Funeral Singers/Dead Oceans
Violens/Sariza Spring/True/Slumberland
Sex Life/I Want You/PDX Pop Now! 2011/PDX Pop Now!
Butterfly Boucher/Don’t Point, Don’t Scare It/Flutterby/A&M
Felix/Don’t Look Back (It’s Too Sad)/Oh Holy Molar/kranky
Butch Walker & the Black Widows/Don’t You Think Someone Should Take You Home/I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart/One Haven
10:00 hour
Smoking Popes/Writing a Letter/Complete Control Sessions/SideOneDummy
Maritime/Annihilation Eyes/Human Hearts/Dangerbird
Idewild/Century After Century/The Remote Part/Capitol
Hard-Fi/Toxic/Radio 1 – Established 1967/Universal
Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things/Old/Clean on the Corner/482 Music
Louis Prima/Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think)/Beepin’ & Bopppin’/Hip-O
The Platters/Summertime/Golden Hits/Universal
Jesca Hoop/Born To/The House That Jack Built/Bella Union
Sarah Slean/Day One/Day One/WEA
Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside/Write Me A Letter/Dirty Radio/Partisan
Langhorne Slim & the Law/Found My Heart/The Way We Move/Ramseur
Ben Lee/Catch My Disease/Awake is the New Sleep/New West
Ha Ha Tonka/Hold My Feet to the Fire/Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South/Bloodshot
Grass Widow/Cover You/Internal Logic/HLR
Minus the Bear/Throwin’ Shapes/Planet of Ice/Suicide Squeeze
Alpha Consumer/Spirograph/Kick Drugs Out of America/self-released
Matthew Dear/Good Girl/Backstroke/Spectral Sound
11:00 hour
Killer Mike/Southern Fried/R.A.P. Music/Williams Street
Outkast/Gasoline Dreams/Stankonia/Arista
Astronautalis/Thomas Jefferson (ft. Sims & Mike Wiebe)/This Is Our Science/Fake Four Inc.
Low/Nothing But Heart/C’mon/Sub Pop
Many Places/Black Houses/Another Oath/Tandem Shop
The Blacks/Foggy Minded Breakdown/Just Like Home/Bloodshot
The Mekons/Geeshie/Ancient & Modern/Bloodshot
Cold Specks/Steady/I Predict a Graceful Expulsion/Mute
Teddy Thompson/Altered State/Separate Ways/Verve
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros/Dear Believer/Here/Vagrant
Jennifer O’Connor/Today/Over the Mountain, Across the Valley and Back to the Stars/Matador
Bon Iver/Re: Stacks/For Emma, Foreve Ago/Jagjaguwar
JBM/Moonwatcher/Stray Ashes/Western Viny
Sufjan Stevens/Romulus/Greetings from Michigan/Asthmatic Kitty